Joseph Kabui

Joseph Kabui (1954-7 June 2008) was President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea from 15 June 2005 to 7 June 2008, preceding John Tabinaman.

Biography
Joseph Kabui was born in 1954, and during the 1990s he was a Bougainville Revolutionary Army commander during the Bougainville Civil War. Kabui was one of the negotiators of the 1997 ceasefire with the government of Papua New Guinea, and in 2005 he won a large majority of the votes on the island of Bougainville to make him President of the new Autonomous Region of Bougainville. He died of a heart attack on 7 June 2008, being too poor to afford more heart medicine.